00810-3720 — Brilliant Red

It is available in more than 90 brilliant matte colors for a wide choice in sensitive graphic reproduction or fine art painting techniques. Its characteristics include covering power, opacity, and high tinting strength with fine flowing texture.

Brilliant Red

Color Swatch created using full strength/50/50 and was applied on cold press Bristol board (2 ply) material.

This color contains the following pigments:

PR4—Permanent Red

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Properties

Pigment PR4 is an opaque, bright yellowish red pigment with high tinting strength.

Permanence

Pigment PR4 has good lightfastness, but newer red pigments are considered more permanent and reliable.

Toxicity

Known also as D&C Red No 36, PR4 is used in cosmetic products such as lipsticks. It has been tested for carcinogenic and mutagenic effects in laboratory rats.

History

Because it is inexpensive and has a long history of use in cosmetic products, Permanent Red PR4 is widely used in artist materials where safety is more important than archival preservation, as in children's art materials.